THE LAST BANANA: DANCING WITH THE WATU
Book ID/图书代码： 07861210B40114
English Summary/英文概要： The Last Banana began when the author visited his university friend Marios Ghikas, whose family farmed in Chaggaland, Tanzania. Anticipating nationalization, Marios invited Tucker to visit again to help him spend the last banana of his unremittable fortune , and Tucker returned in 1972. These were the first of 16 African trips spanning 43 years. There were 180 Greeks in Chaggaland, but Nyerere s policy of returning land to the watu (people) destroyed this community. Three stayed on; Marios was one.
In this absorbing and elegantly written book, Tucker recalls conditions in equatorial Africa before the European scramble for colonies. He reminds us of Livingstone s vision of ending the slave trade by bringing the 3 Cs (Commerce, Christianity and Civilization) to the interior of Africa and suggests that Greek settlement in Africa was an important, part of fulfilling Livingstone s vision a story previously untold in English. Tucker contrasts the moral force and fruits of the pioneer missionaries and explorers who brought Christianity to Africa with the triviality of modern travel and the surrealism of democracy and freedom expounded in Africa today.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 最初写最后的香蕉，是作者去探望他大学时代的好友Marios Ghikas，他的这位朋友是在坦桑尼亚查加兰从事耕种。加入国有化进城以后，Marios邀请Tucker再次造访他的家并且一起享用他最后的无需上交的财产：最后的香蕉，Tucker于1972年才返回家中。这是耗时43年的16此非洲之旅的最初两次。在查加兰有180个希腊人，但是尼雷尔关于返还土地给人民的政策摧毁了这一群人的生活。三个人仍然坚守在那里，而Marios是其中之一。
在这部动人心弦的书中，Tucker回忆起在欧洲人前往殖民以前非洲的境况。他提醒我们Livingstone关通过在非洲实行3C（商贸、基督教和文明）来废除奴隶制度并且提出希腊人在非洲安营扎寨是非常重要的。Livingstone的观点并没有被用英语记载过。Tucker对比了那些先行者将基督教带到非洲后的丰硕果实与现代超现实主义者将民主和自由带向非洲的不值一提的小事。(兼职翻译-LN)
Awards/获奖情况：这是一本不可思议的书......Shelby Tucker是少有的旅行作家：一个维多利亚时代的自信的坚持体现旅行的原汁原味的人。——Michael Moran，《The Tablet》周刊
任何阅读这本充满人性和睿智的书的读者一定会更加了解东非，也更加认识到人性的淳朴和愚钝。——Robert Carver，《独立报》
Shelby Tucker......是最好的旅行作家，因为他有高瞻远瞩的目光，以平和但忧伤的语气书写文字......这本书值得一读。——Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith，《教堂周刊》
About the Author/作者介绍： Shelby Tucker在牛津大学修读法律，他既是一个作家也是一个旅行家，也是畅销书《在叛乱分子中：行走缅甸》的作者。Tucker是研究缅甸历史的国际权威。他的著作《缅甸，独立的诅咒》于2001年出版。 Shelby Tucker read law at the University of Oxford, and is a writer and traveller, and the author of the bestselling Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma. Tucker is an international authority on modern Burmese history. His acclaimed work Burma, The Curse of Independence, was published in 2001.
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